Thanks to advances in treatment options, a COVID-19 diagnosis is no longer as scary as it once was, at least for most people. A new study, however, suggests that it may now be easier to predict who is ...
Peritoneal dialysate white blood cell count is readily obtainable and is associated with low cost. Chow et al. recommend that the measurement be routinely taken on day 3 following diagnosis ...
Of 289 patients with bacteremia, 52% had normal WBC count and 17% had neither WBC elevation nor fever. Despite multiple studies showing that a normal white blood cell (WBC) count does not exclude ...